The Journal of Religion and Film

Edited by
William L. Blizek and Ronald R. Burke

Department of Philosophy and Religion
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Volume 5, Number 2 (October 2001)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• The Catholic Imagination in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz 
  By Christopher Garbowski

• From Holy Aliens to Cyborg Saviours: Biblical Subtexts in Four Science Fiction Films
  By Anton Karl Kozlovic

• Wake up!  Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix
  By Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel Wagner

• Film Depictions of Judas
  By Kim Paffenroth

• Robert Zemeckis’s Contact as a Late-Twentieth Century Paradiso
  By Gregory M. Sadlek

• The Sanctification of Fear: Images of the Religious in Horror Films 
  By Bryan Stone

• The God Behind the Screen: Pleasantville & The Truman Show
  By Linda A. Mercadante

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• Planet of the Apes - Matt McEver

• Tomb Raider - Nicola Denzey

Notices

• Western Regional Meeting of the Conference of Christianity and Literature: Narrating Hope in Film and Literature March 14-17 2002 Azusa Pacific University

• Call For Papers: Boston Faith & Film Festival